Guyana News

Already into the ninth month of the year, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has registered total annual production of only 88,000 tonnes of sugar with six of the factories grinding as of yesterday.

Police yesterday issued a new wanted bulletin for Carolan Lynch for questioning in relation to the murder of her husband, cambio owner Farouk Razack.

Biker Kirk Davis was shot 16 times, an indication of murderous intent, but up to press time last evening there was still no word from the police as to whether the suspect, once a close friend, had been captured.

In the wake of the fallout over the involvement of two of its senior members in the Amaila Falls hydropower project, the AFC has adopted a raft of guidelines, including the disclosure of its leaders’ private material interests, albeit on a case-by-case basis.

The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the University of Guyana Workers’ Union (UGWU) were yesterday collecting signatures for a petition calling for the re-instatement of the recently dismissed Bursar John Seeram and Senior Accountant Hazel Bentick.

Outgoing Director of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC), Professor Daizal Samad has reiterated his call for full autonomy saying that not much can be achieved “if you’re bound hand and foot.”

The main opposition APNU is calling on the government to announce a plan to curb suicides in Guyana.

Some 20 staff members of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday successfully completed a “customer service” training programme, aimed at improving patient care at the facility.

The Humanitarian Aid Programme (HAP) of the US Embassy has donated five microscopes valued US$5000 to the Animal Health Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture to assist their effort at ensuring food and animal safety.

The PNCR insists that it has made numerous contributions to Amerindian development and dismissed claims to the contrary made by President Donald Ramotar as “wildly uninformed.”

A total of 12 courts will be housed at the refurbished Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Complex along Avenue of the Republic and Brickdam, between Croal Street and Brickdam, which is expected to be handed over to the judiciary by the end of September after more than two years of works.

Darlon Jones, the victim of an armed robbery, yesterday said that the man accused of carrying out the attack battered him for hours and threatened to kill him if his overseas-based mother did not send money for his release.

A Holland-based Guyanese man is accusing a local tour company of false online advertising and says that instead of refunding him for failing to deliver, it removed the false information from the site.

The Ministry of Education and has organised ‘Give a Book’ and ‘Drop Everything and Read’ campaigns to encourage reading and literacy nationwide for Education Month 2013, currently underway.

The office of Dr SenGupta and Associates has delivered a series of outreach events in the past month.

Ambassador Noel Sinclair, who recently completed his tour of duty as Caricom’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, on August 26 was appointed as Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the President of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Ambassador John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Dr Monica Odwin has been appointed Regional Health Services Director.

Two nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital were among the recipients of prestigious awards in nursing and midwifery from the Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) at its recently held Annual Awards Ceremony.

Nine Guyana Oil Company Limited (Guyoil) employees’ children, who were successful at the 2013 National Grade Six Assessment, were rewarded when the company recently held its annual presentation of Bursary Awards.

  The Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur has revised the current requirement of submitting four copies of each document, including the Form C72.